A glimpse of the universe just 480 million years after the Big Bang
In short: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified a potential record-breaking galaxy candidate. This tiny, ancient object offers a rare look at the deep past, with light that has traveled for over 13 billion years.
Astronomers believe they have found the most distant, ancient object ever observed. This compact galaxy, composed of blue stars, existed when the universe was only four percent of its current 13.7-billion-year age. The light from this dim object took 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, surpassing the previous record by approximately 150 million years. To put its scale in perspective, it would take more than one hundred galaxies of this size to equal the mass of our Milky Way.
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